[lbo-talk] how-the-average-us-consumer-spends-their-paycheck

[Mike Beggs]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:53 PM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:


> The current Consumer Expenditure Survey has been been done on an ongoing
> basis since 1980. Before then, every decade or so.  http://www.bls.gov/cex/
>
> But they've also put together a report with long-term historical data - "100
> Years of U.S. Consumer Spending: Data for the Nation, New York City, and
> Boston." It's available here: http://www.bls.gov/opub/uscs/home.htm .

Cool, thanks. If there's a single shining light in the US public
sector it's stats. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has to fight
for enough funding to produce a quarterly CPI.

Mike Beggs